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Connell and Postcolonial Sociology

Decentering Social Theory

ISBN: 978-1-78190-726-9, eISBN: 978-1-78190-727-6

Publication date: 7 August 2013

Abstract

This essay argues that Southern Theory kick-started a conversation long overdue in sociology about the colonial bounds of the sociological canon and its implications. It makes the case that Southern Theory can be used as a jump-off point to reflect on what the contours of a postcolonial sociology might look like since it argues that postcolonial difference can be used to extend theory, point to earlier theoretical misrecognitions, and to illuminate hitherto unseen logics of social organization by shifting the center.

Citation

Ray, R. (2013), "Connell and Postcolonial Sociology", Decentering Social Theory (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-8719(2013)0000025013

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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